- Professor Waldman makes Victor his 'protege', Waldman speeds up Victors course of education to help him learn more. Natural Philosophy and Chemistry become Victors sole occupation and he becomes more and more distracted to become incredibly knowledgeable in these courses. He finds himself secluded in the laboratory for days on end.
- Two years pass with Victor spending days in his lab, he becomes out of touch with the world and although he has impressed the professors and other students at Ingolstadt, he has yet to write back to his family and friends inn Geneva.
I believe that Victor's character which had been built up by himself beforehand as being incredibly knowledgeable and 'nice' was to be criticized after him not even writing to his family and friends, this shows that Victor is slowly slipping into a trance-like state and his work is becoming his obsession. It also shows that Victor has flaws in his personality and is not perfect as he has built himself to be like.
- Victor develops a great interest in the human body's frame, he wants to find out how it works and what constitutes 'the principles of life'. Victor believe if he wants to find out more about life, he would first need to learn more about its counterpart, death.
Victor is showing a huge interest in life and death and shows that he wants to experiment with it. Because he wants to experiment with life and death gives me the impression he wants to become powerful like God who apparently possesses these powers.
- On his quest to learn more about death, Victor finds himself in graveyards trying to find body parts for his dissection projects.
This shows that Victors obsessions has become out of hand as he is digging up grave looking for body parts to experiment on.
- Through his projects, Victor has an epiphany and finds out how to create life, he however does not share it with Walton, or the reader, as it brings too much shame on his behalf.
This foreshadows Victors feelings to when he finally finishes his creation, he becomes ashamed and doesn't even want to share his epiphany with the reader.
- Victor does not rush to use his epiphany, he first plans out the framework of the body for his creation, stating he will make it of a huge proportion.
The way Shelley shows how Victor is planning his creation again shows how he wants to be god-like.
- Victor is incredibly big-headed over the power he holds, saying " No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve"
Again Shelley makes Victor sound more and more obsessed with becoming more powerful with his knowledge.
-Victor works weeks on end laboring in his lab, he even picks on animals and tortures them in order to help his creating become better. Shelley describes how the seasons pass with Victor being in a trance-like state.
Talking about Victor being god-like, here it states that Victor had been 'torturing' animals which contrasts to him being God-like and more towards being the devil.
- Victor shows some sympathy towards his father who is awaiting a letter from him however believes that his father will understand why he hadn't written back. At this point Victor starts to realise the obsession he has over his creation.
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